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How To Stop Glimepiride And Metformin Inspite Of Having Normal Blood Sugar Levels?

i am aged 70 and strict vegarian and always health concious and do orning for half an hour walking 20 steps running then 20 steps walking what i learnt when i was in scout during my school days. 3 month before i was with my friend and was cheking his blood sugar and my curiousity made me also to get checked and pp was 320. He suggested me to have gtt which i did and i showed to a doctor who is a professor for diabetic centre and suggested me to have glimepiride m1with metformin 550 mg and the cobination medicine I used to take regularly half an hour before ,unch as per doctors advice. The sugar level fasting is 120 and pp level is 180/190. I consulted again the doctor and he suggested to take glimipride m1 two hours before and before having lunch to take metformin 5oo mg. Now the result shows little improvement with fasting 100/110 and pp after 2hours taken lunch to 170/180. When I requested doctor to increase the dosage he suggested to avoid taking coffee with sugar and to avoid sweet items. He also advised to have every fours lunch (normal lunch divided by twice) and dinner with wheat products. I am following his suggestions and my kidney and heart all normal. couls you suggest as to how to stop taking tablets with a normal food in order so that the amount of insulin my body produces is sufficient on day to day activities. I have not noticed hunger, thrist, no pain in any area, normal vision, no tiredness felt but feeling that i am a norma person without any health problem . your suggestion will be help ful to me sir. Thanking you all with respects. srinivasan k s from south india.
Fri, 12 Dec 2014
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hi thanks for using Healthcaremagic
What your doctor has done is correct
You require a combination therapy for better sugar control.Since your PP was very high.It is because of the drugs the sugar values are normal along with food control.In your age strict control of blood sugars are not advised because of the threat of Hypoglycemia .Hence it is better to continue the same ...
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How To Stop Glimepiride And Metformin Inspite Of Having Normal Blood Sugar Levels?

hi thanks for using Healthcaremagic What your doctor has done is correct You require a combination therapy for better sugar control.Since your PP was very high.It is because of the drugs the sugar values are normal along with food control.In your age strict control of blood sugars are not advised because of the threat of Hypoglycemia .Hence it is better to continue the same ... thank you ....